Show A COW WORTH HAVING in the current issue ot of our dumb animals appeared a picture of the champion jersey cow ot of the world together with a brief statement ot of her achievements as a dairy cow the animals name is sophie IX and in the yearl she produced pounds and 3 ounces of milk from the cream of which were manufactured 1005 pounds and 11 ounces of butter the statistics also stated that sophie was able to furnish SO 80 children with a nice glass of richest milk each day in the year and supply a half dozen faini families lies of six sis in abers each with all the butter they need for the same length of time but the most startling thing in the whole article wad was the statement that ot of all the cows cows of the united states could do one tenth as well as sophie IX our national wealth would be increased over one billion dollars a year brigham city and box elder county arean are ln a measure responsible for the waste which might otherwise be turned into a handsome revenue for the reason that this section has become notorious tor for the poor grade 0 cows which the tha farmers and city people are feeding there are exceptions ho however weyer even IR in this community for wi we have some borne breeders bleeders bre eders who are not satisfied with conditions which have blaye so 0 o long existed and they are bending every effort to improve our common stock it if one needs to be shown that our cows are ire far below thoi aver age it can be done by br taking him out in fa the evening on the highways over which the cows travel from the pastures to the home corrals we have oft often made the assertion that there are not ton ten cows in a hundred which pay par for their keep the year through in the herds that make their way from this city to the outlying pastures and return at night and we v e will have to be shown n by the Babcoc lc test ba fore we will bea ve otherwise A cow to actually pay lor for the ex cs arc rc rise of keeping her must make at least pounds of butter in a year or just a trifle over halt hair boan of but itar ter per day for cor acry day in the year i when one stops to ega e it out he is readily convinced that it takes a pretty good cow to keep herself and of course a much better one to return a profit to her owner attention was called early this spring to a herd of cows five in number one of which was just fresh A neighbor hada jersey T h helfer e alfer two years old with her first calf and that lady was malting making more butter from the one cow than her neighbor was making from the five cows and yet those five fire cows have been fed year after year tended milked and fussed bussed with at a dead loss to the owner see what a difference there would be in the expense of 0 keeping one cow like the one referred to in comparison to the five and yet the returns on the one were greater than they vereon the five besides a cow that was designed for a race horse or something else usually cats about twice the amount a first firs t class dairy cow will require which adds to the expense again this is just one instance and there is ie no question but that many more could easily be found similar to this one when a creamery was in in operation in this city the farmers were paid for their milk according to tho the percent butter tat fat it would yield and the milk was tested frequently to see sea just what it would do by that meant means it t could be computed exactly how bow much butter a cow would produce and a little figuring would soon prove whether or not she was wag worth keeping every bow cow owner could ild find out in the same manner just what his cows will yield in butter and those that do not come up to the standard r should hould be disposed of over the butchers block just as quickly as possible for they have no right to live such men as dr pearse and john D Il mathias athias IV 0 knudson and E N V dunn P J petersen alv M V rohwer and others of this city who have imported pure bred stock into the community ought to receive the everlasting gratitude of the breeders bleeders bre eders generally ard and should raould receive the support of everybody in their efforts to raise the standard of our cows there is enormous wealth being thrown away every ye year ar holt this county by the farmers not plying paying 1 more atte attention ution to the breeding 0 iv in of their cows and going into ue she bis ness of raising dairy stock we ve ha an ideal locality tor for a big creamery r condensed milk factory ax plenty of capital ready to launch such fuch propositions it if the farmers will but supply the milk it about time to get your your mitts onto some of this good I 1 money farmers which you can so easily do if you but put forth tile the effort besides the loss in keeping poor cows there is a tremendous loss in not building up the dairy industry in I 1 the matter of oi fai fertilizer alone which will in a few years become quite a serious problem with the agriculture ests ests and horticulturists unless a reformation is had in some ot of these lines lined keep the record record of sophie IX pasted somewhere some whore where it can stare you in the face every day until it impels you to examine your cow herd and find out what kind ot of a herd it is or until it generates in your soul a desire to make inae some easy money by launching out in the dairy business on a large scale cut out the waste ot of feeding inferior cows food feed them to the meat hungry huner y and then get cows that are worth bothering with theres molloy in III it |